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Alfred Kähler, 1900- 1981.

German economist from the Kiel School. 

Alfred Kähler was a student of Adolph Lowe at Kiel.   In his 1933 dissertation, Kähler constructed the first "input-output" model, preceding the efforts of Wassily Leontief, which provided a formal analysis of technological unemployment.

Dismissed after the arrival of the Nazis, Alfred Kähler fled Germany and joined the New School for Social Research in 1934.

 

  

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Major Works of Alfred Kähler

  • Die Theorie der Arbeiterfreisetzung durch die Maschine, 1933.
  • "The Trade Union Approach to Economic Democracy", 1937, in Ascoli and Lehman, editors, Political and Economic Democracy
  • "Business Stabilization in Theory and Practice", 1938, Social Research
  • "The Problem of Verifying the Theory of Technological Unemployment", 1935, Social Research
  • Education for an Industrial Age with Ernest Hamburger, 1948

 
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Resources on Alfred Kähler

  • Kähler obituary in the NY Times, 1981
  • "Alfred Kähler's Die Theorie der Arbeiterfreisetzung, and early contribution to the analysis of the impact of automation on workers" by Christian Gehrke, 1998 [pdf]
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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